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Secret Mission To Expose L. Ron Hubbard As A Fake
London Times ^
| August 06, 2009
Posted on 08/06/2009 7:23:42 PM PDT by Steelfish
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posted on
08/06/2009 7:23:42 PM PDT
by
Steelfish
To: Steelfish
Oh oh!
Tom Cruise is gonna be upset!
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posted on
08/06/2009 7:25:57 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(Nemo me impune lacesset)
To: Steelfish
They needed a secret mission? What, they couldn't read?
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posted on
08/06/2009 7:26:20 PM PDT
by
JasonC
To: Steelfish
British diplomats who were investigating his qualifications Paging a team of British diplomats to the White House ASAP!
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posted on
08/06/2009 7:26:53 PM PDT
by
GnL
To: JasonC
Harlan Ellison has been telling everybody and their dog about the “drunken bar bet” for *years*.
If they won’t listen, they deserve what they get.
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posted on
08/06/2009 7:28:36 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away..............)
To: Steelfish
Hubbard a fake? Hell, he wasn't even a decent sci-fi writer. His magnum opus bombed. The fact is, he made up scientology as a parody, then discovered to his amazement that credulous chumps out there took it seriously. Not one to leave money on the table, he saw his opportunity and he took it. Can't blame the guy. As WC Fields said, "Never give a sucker an even break."-- The First Commandment of scientology.
To: GnL
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posted on
08/06/2009 7:30:53 PM PDT
by
Bernard Marx
("Civilizations die by suicide, not from murder" Toynbee)
To: Steelfish
He didn’t actually write his science fiction?
To: Steelfish
I started reading pulp Science Fiction magazines when I was still a teenager. I took the train into NYC and visited the used book shops on 14th street.
The going write for SF writers for the pulpiest pulps, back in the 40s and 50s, was one cent a word, or even half a cent a word.
Anyway, I remember reading the letters to the editor in one of those pulps. I had read some of Hubbards early stories, and still have a Gnome Press edition of Typewriter in the Sky and Fear. Anyway, L. Ron Hubbard wrote a letter to the editor, saying that he was through with writing Science Fiction, because there was a lot more money to be made by starting a religion.
Which he then proceeded to do.
I’m pretty sure I have that magazine in a packing box somewhere. But I remember the gist of the letter, which was very clear. And indeed, Hubbard was right. He did a lot better with his fake religion than he ever did with his stories.
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posted on
08/06/2009 7:42:55 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cicero
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posted on
08/06/2009 7:49:31 PM PDT
by
jokyfo
(I"M JIM THOMPSON!!)
To: Steelfish
On January 24, 1986, Hubbard died from a stroke at his ranch aged 74.[188] He left a $600 million estate.[4]
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posted on
08/06/2009 7:55:36 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
To: Steelfish
Dad, Tom Cruise won’t come out of the closet. - Stan
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posted on
08/06/2009 7:57:48 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: JasonC
“They needed a secret mission? What, they couldn’t read?”
Ha! Ha! And his followers are the Hollywood elites who tell us how to live our lives. What a joke!
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posted on
08/06/2009 7:58:17 PM PDT
by
BelleAl
To: Steelfish
Since when is it a “secret” that Scientology is a ludicrous fraud?
To: ozzymandus
I was given the Battleground Earth series ;it is not first -rate writing.
You have to be pretty gullible to join a cult promoted by someone who was already known for writing cheap fiction.
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posted on
08/06/2009 8:13:00 PM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: Steelfish
Hubbard did start a weird philosophical belief system, a religion to some maybe.
However
Obama, the far left public schools and the activist judges are much bigger liars and frauds that continue to do much greater harm than Hubbard ever did.
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posted on
08/06/2009 8:14:52 PM PDT
by
Old Landmarks
(No fear of man, none!)
To: hoosierham
The cult is busy promoting dianetics again in Cincinnati;do the cultists consider a conscience to be a negative?
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posted on
08/06/2009 8:15:09 PM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: Steelfish
It doesn't need a secret mission to find out that Scientology is a fake. L. Ron invented the religion as a method to avoid paying taxes. It might have been a noble thing if the religion he created was not such a scam.
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posted on
08/06/2009 8:15:47 PM PDT
by
jonrick46
(The Obama Administration is a blueprint for Fabian Socialism.)
To: Ronin
weren’t...didn’t they sue, John / Jane Smith.
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posted on
08/06/2009 8:23:35 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Zer0 to the voter: "Welcome to 'MY' DeathCARE ® Plan"...Sucker! ...now just die. :^)
To: Steelfish
Ain’t much of a secret if it’s a story in the London Times, is it?
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posted on
08/06/2009 8:30:13 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
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